Founding Engineer

Job Title : Lead Java Developer (Backend)

Experience Required : 8 to 15 Years

Open Positions : 5

Location : Any major metro city (Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad)

Work Mode : Open to Remote / Hybrid / Onsite

Notice Period : Immediate Joiner/30 Days or Less

About the Role :

• We are looking for experienced Lead Java Developers who bring not only strong backend development skills but also a product-oriented mindset and leadership capability.
• This is an opportunity to be part of high-impact digital transformation initiatives that go beyond writing code—you’ll help shape future-ready platforms and drive meaningful change.
• This role is embedded within a forward-thinking digital engineering team that thrives on co-innovation, lean delivery, and end-to-end ownership of platforms and products.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and implement scalable backend systems using Java and Spring Boot.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to build intuitive and reliable digital products.
• Advocate and implement engineering best practices : SOLID principles, OOP, clean code, CI/CD, TDD/BDD.
• Lead Agile-based development cycles with a focus on speed, quality, and customer outcomes.
• Guide and mentor team members, fostering technical excellence and ownership.
• Utilize cloud platforms and DevOps tools to ensure performance and reliability of applications.

What We’re Looking For :

• Proven experience in Java backend development (Spring Boot, Microservices).
• 8+ Years of hands-on engineering experience with at least 2+ years in a Lead role.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Good understanding of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to design solutions from first principles.
• Prior experience in product-based or startup environments is a big plus.

Ideal Candidate Profile :

• A tech enthusiast with a passion for clean code and scalable architecture.
• Someone who thrives in collaborative, transparent, and feedback-driven environments.
• A leader who takes ownership beyond individual deliverables to drive overall team and project success.

Interview Process

1. Initial Technical Screening (via platform partner)
2. Technical Interview with Engineering Team
3. Client-facing Final Round

Additional Info :

• Targeting profiles from product/startup backgrounds.
• Strong preference for candidates with under 1 month of notice period.
• Interviews will be fast-tracked for qualified profiles.

🚨 Hiring Alert 🚨

We are Hiring Java Backend Intern for 2 months !

Skills Required:

1. Good understanding of Java 17, Spring and any Sql database

2. Good Understanding on designing low level code from scratch

3. Experience in building database schema and code architecture

4. Familiar with design patterns and willingness to write clean, readable, and well-documented code.

5. Familiarity with tools like postman, STS or intelij

6. Understanding of REST APIs and their role in application development.

7. Good DSA and problem solving skills

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Assist in developing and maintaining web applications.

2. Learn to utilize open source tools for integration

3. Collaborate with team members to design and implement new features.

4. Contribute to optimizing application performance and resolving bugs.

5. Stay curious and keep learning new technologies relevant to spring boot and spring reactive

6. Exposure to version control systems like Git.

7. Passion for learning and contributing to real-world projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Min exp of 0-2 years.

2. Skills in computer science/IT and relevant.

What You’ll Gain:

1. Stipend - 8k -10k/ month, subjective to your performance

2. Hands-on experience in building production-grade applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required:

1. At least 3 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
2. Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
3. Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
4. Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
5. Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
6. Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
7. Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
8. Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
9. Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
10. Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
11. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
12. Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
13. Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
14. Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.

• Completed studies or training in the field of Computer science or Software Engineering or comparable qualification
• Knowledge and 3+ years of experience in programming with C# and Frameworks like .NET 4. x and Windows forms as well as WPF
• Legacy knowledge with C++ and MFC are also welcomed
• Passion and fun for software development in a self-organized manner
• Knowledge of ADO .NET and Databases
• Strong interpersonal skills, including a cooperation and team-based focus, experience in liaising between PMs, BAs, and testers
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical people
• Practical experience with DevExpress controls and Entity Framework is an advantage

Responsibilities

- Software Engineering

- Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems with minimal

guidance for a market leader in the logistics industry

- Partner with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design

philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team

- Research new technologies and tools that enable building the next generation of our services

- Provide technology leadership to the team and foster engineering excellence

- Product Delivery

- Partner with product managers to define and execute on the feature roadmap

- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design

- Coordinate with various cross functional teams on planning and execution

- Maintaining automated build / test / deployment environments

Qualifications

- Software Engineering

- Should have at least 4 years of hands on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying

applications on Java, Ruby, Kotlin, Python, Node or Go for large scale applications

- Deep knowledge of one of the programming language they have experience in

- Proficient in OOP and Design Patterns, experience with functional programming would be a plus

- Data modelling experience in Relational Databases

- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services

- Product Delivery

- Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency

risks.

- Well versed in working with agile methodologies which includes phases such as design, development,

code review, testing and release management

- Ability to have worked in a CI/CD environment, with hands on experience with Git or any similar source

code management tools

- Product Maintenance

- Experience troubleshooting server performance issues such as memory tuning, GC tuning, resource leaks

etc

- Continuously refactor applications to ensure high quality design.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• M-Tech or advanced degree a plus
• Hackathon participation and accolades are a plus

Job Role:

• 4+ years of object-oriented Java / J2EE development
•  Full SDLC experience (requirements gathering, architecture, development, QA, etc)…
•  Experience with Spring (MVC, IOP/DI, REST, Security) & Hibernate/Spring
•  Experience with SOAP / REST web services
•  Knowledge of SQL
•  Knowledge of No SQL concepts, understanding of Solr, Redis and Mongo DB is desirable
•  Must have worked on any one messaging solutions
•  Bonus Points for micro service design and development experience
•  Bonus points for any mobile development experience
•  Used Agile methodology
•  Bonus Points for experience working on Unix, shell scripting & Build Systems
•  Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage

Responsibilities :

- Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance for one of the fastest-growing company in India

- Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design

- Pair with team members on functional and nonfunctional requirements and spread design philosophy, goals and improve the code quality across the team

- Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap

- Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Mobile, UX etc.) on planning and execution

- Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies

- The building of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Experience and Skills :

- 2+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Node.JS for large scale applications.

- Strong proficiency with JavaScript

- Understanding of Asynchronous Request handling techniques.

- Deep knowledge of Linux : CentOS, Fedora, or Ubuntu

- Data modeling experience in Relational and NoSQL databases(MONGO DB)

- Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

- Well versed with Agile methodologies, TDD and Test Engineering and Automation

- Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services

- Experience troubleshooting server performance - memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks, etc.

- Excellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimizations, database interactions, network programming, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, monitoring, security and operability of systems

- Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design

- Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with a good degree of predictability